![]() ![]() This is the story of a tragic hero who turned villain and became one of the most famous fictional characters ever. When Skywalker chose to turn to the dark side of the Force, and pledged his allegiance to the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, his alter ego, Darth Vader, the Dark Lord of the Sith, was created. ![]() He was one of the main protagonists of the prequel trilogy. He was destined to bring balance to the Force and was trained by Obi-Wan Kenobi to become a Jedi. Before, he was Anakin Skywalker, The Chosen One. Created by George Lucas, he is the central antagonist of the original Star Wars trilogy.īut Darth Vader was not always Darth Vader. Does Darth Vader really need an introduction? Darth Vader is one of the most iconic villains of all time. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Told through the eyes of an anonymous lesbian narrator nicknamed Lazi, Qiu Miaojin's cult classic novel is a postmodern pastiche of diaries, vignettes, mash notes, aphorisms, exegesis, and satire by an incisive prose stylist and countercultural icon.Īfflicted by her fatalistic attraction to Shui Ling, an older woman who is alternately hot and cold toward her, Lazi turns for support to a circle of friends that includes the devil-may-care, rich-kid-turned-criminal Meng Sheng and his troubled, self-destructive gay lover Chu Kuang, as well as the bored, mischievous overachiever Tun Tun and her alluring slacker artist girlfriend Zhi Rou.īursting with the optimism of newfound liberation and romantic idealism despite corroding innocence, Notes of a Crocodile is a poignant and intimate masterpiece of social defiance by a singular voice in contemporary Chinese literature.Īn occasional pitfall of reading literature from a country other than your own is that you aren’t approaching it with the necessary cultural framework to make it comprehensible. ![]() ![]() Set in the post-martial-law era of late 1980s Taipei, Notes of a Crocodile depicts the coming-of-age of a group of queer misfits discovering love, friendship, and artistic affinity while hardly studying at Taiwan's most prestigious university. ![]() ![]() ![]() On the positive side, his open willingness to use the royalties from his best-selling book Soul on Ice to help finance the early stages of the BPP, and his work to establish the Los Angeles BPP Branch (the first outside of Oakland, California, U.S.), are clear examples here. ![]() Eldridge personified those contradictions. Most people engaged in studying the history of African liberation movements in general and the BPP in particular already have some understanding of the contradictions within the BPP. Eldridge Cleaver without question was an enigmatic figure within the BPP and Clifford attempts to use this biography to show a balanced view of Eldridge Cleaver as insightful and talented while also displaying Cleaver’s brutality and ruthlessness. ![]() Revolutionary or Death is the 2020 biography written about former Black Panther Party (BPP) Minister of Information Leroy “Eldridge” Cleaver. ![]() “We cannot expect to rely on individuals, regardless of how charismatic and intelligent, to ‘lead’ our struggle because all of us are works in progress.” Just like we glorified the black leather jackets, black berets, and guns in the 60s, we still romanticize African people with guns and mouths that fire more inaccurately than the guns they carry. ![]() ![]() His days of glory as the Boss Snake of the Mystic Rattlers football team are over, and he didn't have the grades to go to college. He lives in a trailer in Mystic with his lumpy, devoted wife and two hollerin' young'uns. This going-nowhere town hosts the annual Rattlesnake Roundup, which attracts thousands of visitors for a rough 'n' rowdy weekend of your basic primate behavior-hard drinking, ogling bikini-clad contestants in the Miss Mystic Rattle beauty contest, betting on dog fights, snake catching, and snake eating. ![]() ![]() Tormalin the Oathless and the fell-witch Noon have their work cut out rallying the first war-beasts to be born in Ebora for three centuries. Jen lives in London with her partner and their cat. The Ninth Rain is the first electrifying new novel of The Winnowing Flame Trilogy. ![]() All novels in the Copper Cat Trilogy, The Copper Promise, The Iron Ghost, and The Silver Tide, are available from Headline in the UK. Jen was nominated in the Best Newcomer category at the 2015 British Fantasy Awards and her second novel, The Iron Ghost, was shortlisted for the 2016 British Fantasy Awards Novel of the Year award. Her short stories have featured in numerous anthologies and her debut novel, The Copper Promise, was published in 2014 to huge acclaim. JEN WILLIAMS started writing about pirates and dragons as a young girl and hasn’t ever stopped. ![]() First a few details about Jen and The Bitter Twins, then on to the questions. I hope you like the Q&A and make sure you check out all the other blogs that are featuring The Bitter Twins this week for plenty of reviews. This series is a lot of fun and I thoroughly enjoyed getting the chance to put some questions to Jen. Jen is halfway through another incredibly successful fantasy trilogy and I hope everyone who reads this post will consider adding The Ninth Rain and The Bitter Twins to their TBRs. I had the amazing opportunity to put some questions to Jen Williams all about her latest release and Jen’s time as a fantasy author. ![]() Welcome to my stop on The Bitter Twins Blog Tour hosted by Headline. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Literary, commercial, fiction, non-fiction–ideally a wide variety. (That should be easy, right?) Doesn’t matter what kind of books. “Coming out of college, people tend to value being well-versed in the ‘classics,’ but that’s less useful than knowing what’s in the marketplace now. Like, go and find 50 books on the bestseller lists in the last year that sound cool to you. Needless to say Julian’s resume speaks for itself, but he did not get into his position easily and offered some advice for people just coming out of school. He has worked with Andy Weir ( The Martian), Ernie Cline ( Ready Player One, Armada), Robert Jackson Bennett ( City of Stairs), Scott Hawkins ( The Library at Mount Char), and Peter Clines ( The Fold). Julian Pavia is an senior editor at Crown, which is a division of Random House. How exactly do you become an editor and what what is like being one at a major publisher? Seldom is it an entry level position, and you have to pay your dues doing different things within the company in order to have a well tailored resume. Breaking into the publishing industry as an editor is very difficult. ![]() ![]() ![]() From USA Today bestselling author K Webster comes an angsty and emotional enemies-to-lovers gay romance standalone! The hatred began when my father proposed to another man in a shocking moment that rocked my family to its core.Now I'm on a quest for revenge against my father.That means hitting him where it hurts-the new fiancé and the son he thinks so much of.Alister Sommers.Alis is a bleached blond perfectionist thorn in my side who's used to everything going his way. ![]() ![]() ![]() They tend to be more interested in pick-up lines that allow them to learn something about a stranger that helps them stand out amongst other potential matches. Women respond less favorably to pick-up lines that are empty compliments or sexual in nature. ![]()
![]() ![]() (Contemporary Authors, 139) While underground, surrounded by a waterfall and by the INKling creatures, he is hidden from the two competing information organizations that control everything Japan? the System and the Factory. Which, coupled with his brilliant work on computers, makes him the ideal candidate for an aging professor who is hiding in the sewers of Tokyo. “Watashi, the protagonist, is a man without emotion. Two separate narratives? one entitled Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the other The End of the World? progress in alternating chapters. The two parts of the title reflects the double structure of the novel. ![]() The parallelism is found within the length of each chapter, the characters, and the significant occurrences. Throughout the novel, the two worlds increasingly connect and, in the end, Boku and Watashi fuse into one. In Hard-Boiled Wonderland, the character Watashi is assigned to a futuristic Tokyo that is the scene of deadly conflicts between two competing information networks. In End of the World, Boku is assigned to the fantasy world of a walled town here, at the end of the world, he serves as the reader of old dreams that are lodged within the skulls of unicorns. ![]() In Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Murakami divides the protagonist into two characters, Boku and Watashi. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book provides a huge hemispheric overview.” Read more. Mann shows that the Americas were not just an empty world waiting for Europeans to arrive and create a greater American nation – but a place where civilisation had risen and fallen, where there were great cities that contained probably as much population as Europe at the time, if not more, where corn agriculture had transformed large areas of the continent, and where Indian people had created changes in the land that left their imprint on the environment. European rivals raced to create sugar plantations in the Americas and fought wars for control of production. He goes into a great deal of detail and from that a reader gets a very different picture, not just of the Americas in 1491, but also the whole world in 1491. He pulls together a lot of the new research over the last generation in one place and provides the reader with a helicopter overview of the American hemisphere on the eve of contact. ![]() “Charles Mann’s 1491 is subtitled “New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus”. The book has generated controversy within the halls of scholarship. Foreign Policy & International Relations In his bestselling book, '1421: The Year China Discovered America,' British amateur historian Gavin Menzies turns the story of the Europeans discovery of America on its ear with a startling idea: Chinese sailors beat Christopher Columbus to the Americas by more than 70 years. ![]() |